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Creative Commons licenses offer three parts. The first is the legal jargon that details the licensing agreement. The second is the human readable version which provides in layman's terms what the license covers. This allows users to quickly and easily understand what the CC license allows and how others can use or share the resource. The third part, is the machine readable portion of the license. This part of the license can be embedded into websites and digital content with links to the CC license.
